Author name: Steve Burns

After a lifelong fascination with financial markets, Steve began investing in 1993 and trading his accounts in 1995. It was love at first trade. After more than 30 successful years in the markets, Steve now dedicates his time to helping traders improve their psychology and profitability. New Trader U offers an extensive blog resource with more than 4,000 original articles, online courses, and best-selling books covering various topics.

Do You Trade Like Captain Kirk or Mr. Spock?

In Star Trek, Captain Kirk believed that his leadership abilities helped him make good decisions in difficult situations. In contrast, Mr. Spock applied logic and reason, along with his perceived probabilities of success, to make his decisions. These contrasting styles are similar to two opposing trading strategies; discretionary traders and systematic traders. Discretionary traders try to get by on their past experience and

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Trading Tweets of the Week: 9/2/16

What country has the best performing stock market this year? BRAZIL? Data by: https://t.co/kpno1Xe70S$EWZ $RSX pic.twitter.com/SNOcbHLhRv — StockTwits (@StockTwits) August 31, 2016 I politely disagree. I wake up at 3:15pm https://t.co/07q9fkbMYL — 3:30 Ramp Capital™♿️ (@RampCapitalLLC) August 30, 2016 so I guess the low of the day is in pic.twitter.com/6vFbRTCkT6 — StockCats (@StockCats) August 31,

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